Improving Software Quality through Continuous Integration

Broadcast Date: Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM CT / 1:00 PM ET
Duration: One hour

Speakers:
Asya Kamsky, Customer Solutions Architect, Coverity
Matthew Laudato, Technical Marketing Manager, AccuRev
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

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How are you meeting the challenge of accelerating the delivery of secure, high quality applications? With today's agile development processes, or with traditional waterfall processes, there is increased pressure to deliver more software faster. But to do this without sacrificing quality requires special tools and techniques.

Featured speakers Matt Laudato, Product Specialist, AccuRev and Asya Kamsky, Customer Solutions Architect, Coverity will present how organizations can leverage new code analysis techniques, SCM best practices, and continuous integration in order to improve the quality of delivered software without sacrificing time or features.

• Why integrating static analysis early in the development cycle will help
  accelerate the delivery of high quality software
• How software development best practices help to mitigate
  the risks of late defect discovery, low quality or not deployable software
• How continuous integration and frequent testing improve
  software quality
• Using process and code metrics to gauge software quality

Asya Kamsky,
Customer Solutions Architect,
Coverity

Asya Kamsky is a Customer Solutions Architect at Coverity, where she specializes in helping Coverity's 500 customers get the most out of source code analysis and automated software testing. She has over 20 years of industry experience ranging from companies like Cisco, DEC, GE, Lawrence Berkeley Labs and Merrill Lynch to cutting-edge start-ups like E-Greetings, Elemental Security, RouteScience and TGV Inc. Ms. Kamsky's career has spanned work in software testing, networking, database technologies, security and the Web. In 2000, she received the Computerworld Smithsonian medal for excellence in IT. Ms. Kamsky received a B.S. in computer science from Cornell University and an M.S.from New York University.

Matthew Laudato,
Technical Marketing Manager,
AccuRev

Matt Laudato is a Technical Manager at AccuRev. He brings 20 years of experience in software development across the education, ERP, telecom and software tools industries. Mr. Laudato has held engineering and management positions at Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, Northeastern University, Dun & Bradstreet and Openwave. His specialties include business process workflow engineering, LDAP enabled systems design, and statistical process improvement. Mr. Laudato has published several academic papers in the area of statistical analysis and optimization. He holds a B.S. in Physics from StonyBrook University, and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison

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AccuRev (www.AccuRev.com) is a US-based software vendor focused on optimizing and automating the software development process for organizations challenged with today’s highly evolving geographically distributed, parallel and Agile software development environments. More than 500 organizations around the world rely on AccuRev software to develop, release and maintain their mission critical applications.

Coverity (www.coverity.com ), the leader in improving software quality and security, is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity’s groundbreaking technology enables developers to control complexity in the development process by automatically finding and helping to repair critical software defects and security vulnerabilities throughout the application lifecycle. More than 450 leading companies including ARM, Phillips, RIM, Rockwell Collins, Samsung and UBS rely on Coverity to help them ensure the delivery of superior software.